The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-30 00:00:00

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By " the Old Sailor." Neice's Album. iße quiet—do ! I'll call my Mother. Music is Sweet, by Mrs. C. B. The Ups and Downs of Life. Wilson. By Toby Allspy. The Snuff Box, by W. Jerdan. The Village Bride's Farewell. The Mariner's bream ; The By J. A. Wade. Storm Demon. Critiques on Critics. By J. A. The Conveyance Company ; Au Wade. Odd Incident, by Richard On Dr. Cotton's Resignation of Johns. the Office of Ordinary of The Narrative of John Ward Newgate. Gibson, by C. Whitehead. The Mansarde : Adventures in The Dying Child. Paris.—No. HI. By Toby The Cuisine Maigre, by Captain Allspy. Medwin. AT a MEETING of the DELEGATES, held at BROWN'S HOTEL, Palace Yard, March 30, 1838, It was unanimously resolved— i the motion of THOMAS BIG SOLD, Esq., of Norwich ; seconded .... by the Rev. THOMAS MORGAN, of Birmingham, That while this Meeting deny the existence of any contract be tween this Country and the West India Proprietors to continue the apprenticeship, they are at the same time of opinion, that had any contract existed, it has been flagrantly violated by the planters themselves, both in law and practice : and they are further of opinion that all contracts which compromise the natural rights of the human race, and contravene the Divine Law, are before God null and void, and ought to be abolished. On the motion of GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., seconded by R. M. BEVERLEY, Esq., of Scarborough, 2. That as her Majesty's Ministers have, in the progress of the di bate on the Negro Apprenticeship, urged the strong necessity of putti::g an end to the excitement without doors, under the idea that the passing of Lord Glenelg's Bill will settle the question, A nd preclude the possibility of all further agitation, the Di,tegates assembled from all parts of the kingdom do feel it their duty thus solemnly to declare that the passing of Lord Glenelg's Bill will rather increase than diminish the national excitement in behalf of the oppressed negroes, an excitement which as it is foundedon the highest religious principle, can never be terminated but by that issue, which religion, jus tic.', and mercy, imperatively demand. 0:1 the motion of G. W. ALEXA NDMIt, Esq., of London, se, conded by the Rev. Dr. MANt:EL, of Edinburgh, 3. That it is the opinion of the assembled Delegates,that the course pu , sued by her Majesty's Ministers on the great question of Negro Apprenticeship merits unqualified condemnation as being ineon sittent with just legislation, sound policy, the Negro's right, and admission of those existing evils in the Colonies, upon which Lord Gicselg's Bill is itself founded; and the Delegates, therefore, ci,ll uvin their constituents throughout the country to give, by all constitutiooal means the strongest public expression to their and feelings regarding the conduct of the Administration on Allis occasion. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1839. The question of the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship on the Ist of August next formed the leading subject of d selogien in the House of Lords last night. To our no surf, rise and satisf.iction, the Bishop of EXETER opened the L iebate with the presentation of petitions from certain congregations of Wesleyan Methodists, praying for the immediate abolition of the apprenticeship system—a p• ayer, in the justice and righteousness of which the Right Prelate, after the most earnest deliberation, fully and entirely concurred. For once in his Parlia in utary career the Bishop of EXETER placed a great public question on an enlarged, liberal, and statemanslike basis. Ho rightly asserted that the principle of the Eman , 'oation Act of 1833, in recognizing the apprenticeship of tie Negroes for a number of years, had regard only to the fitness of the slave to enter upon the enjoyment of ii erty , and not to the pecuniary interests of the Planter, f,, r w h om an ample compensation had been provided by the clause :vhich devoted Twenty Millions to the redemp tion of the co oured race. The apprentices had an un questionable riglit to their liberty the moment it could b shewn they were in a condiifon to enjoy it with ad v,:ntage to society and themselves ; the requisite proofs of their moral fitness had been given ; and therefore he iv is ready to grant them immediate and unlimited free , lom. The Duke of WELLINGTON in presenting two peti t, ns from West India Planters against any departure from t h e alleged contract contained in the Act of 1833, dwelt up on .`be injustice of depriving the planters of two years' labour Ct . the apprentices—a view of the question which was su b s equently dwelt upon at great length by Lords ST. VINCE: 4 T and SEAFORD. In alluding to the atro cious crueltiext perpetrated by the planters since the passing of the Emancipation Act, Lord ST. VlNCENT—himself a planter and an interested party—grounded his defence of th it body upon the alleged co-existence of abuses in England under the operation of the New Poor-law Bill ! The Noble Viscount did not say in so many words that it was quite usual in EngliSh workhouses to tie women far advanced in pregnancy by the wrists upon a treadmill— to bind up their clothes about their bodies in such a way as to expose their persons to the ruffian gaze of their brutal tormentors—to chain them constantly in couples—to confine them nightly in dungeons polluted with human excrement, without air and water— borne down with the weight of large iron rings, so tightly fastened round their necks, as nearly to strangle them ; and yet these are abuses of every day occurrence in Jamaica. The Noble Viscount WaS content to imply the existence, in ;English workhouses, of enormities such as we have here enumerated— such as we have documents be fore us to prove were so commonn in the West In dies, as to excite little attention, before the mur der of HENRY JAMES, a negro of sixty years of age, who was flogged to death in 1836 ! Lord SEAFORD, another Planter, admitted that there had been a violation of the compact on the part of the Colonial Legislature, but his Lordship contended, that it would be unjust to punish the Planters for the acts of the Legis lative Assembly. Now, we would ask the Noble Lord, who are the Members of the Legislative As sembly of Jamaica ? Are they not Planters, and the Representatives of Planters ? Do they not make the law one day, and administer it the next Are they not as familiar with the cat as with the sight of the mace on their table ? But were it otherwise, how has it come to ;pass that the Planters have never petitioned the Imperial -Parliament to redress the injury inflicted upon their appren tices by:the Colonial Legislature ? Why did they continue the instruments of oppression which they must have known to be violation's of their compact with •England—and which it was optional with them to put an end to at any period before their legal expiration ? These are questions which Lord SEAFORD, with all his practical experience, cannot answer without admittiog the full measure of the guilt of which the Jamaica Planters stand not only accused, but convicted in the judgment of all Europe. But by far the ablest and most conclusive speeches deli vered in the course of the debate upon this question, were made by Lord BROUGHAM—for the Noble and Learned Lord addressed the House twice in support of the humane and enlightened policy which he has so stre nsuously adopted relative to the immediate emancipa tion` of the coloured race. In the course of his first s p eec h his Lordship read the following letter from Lord DENHAN- - oneof thefirst legal authorities in the kingdom— respecting the implied breach of contract, so loudly com plainedof by the Colonialrecipients of the ill-bestowed Twenty Millions. Read it, people of England, and judge for your selves, how shamefully you hose been gulled by these Colo. vial blood-suckers : “ Supposing the Act of 1333 to be a compact between the planters and the Parliament of England acting as truetees for the negroes, no doubt the breach of an implied ;condition by the former would release the latter from their engagement. _But I cannot so consider it. I deny the right of this er , untry to stipulate for the negroes. How could it be ob tain,ld ? It originated in crimes which, if not properly cal:Jed • deserve a harsher name, and ex i s t e d only becwee vac) - . slavery .existed, the lawfulness of which I have always de nied, h. other !words, it was power without right; and the act was sty experiment by two joint wrong-doers (the mere powerful of whom sincerely repented) whether the evil would Le.t be best yut down by continuing it in a mitigated form. This cornpron:i&e, like a thousand other attempts to reconcile right and wrong, is admitted on all hands to have failed. Com pulsory apprenticechip, which was another name for slavery, ai.d could only be jusfuied by expediency, is proved to be in expedient, and nothing remains but the duty of the mother country to afford to all hcr subjects the protective .of equal laws. I am, therefore, fully prepared to consent to the un rordiate abolition of negro appreziceship.” In his second speech Lord BAC:I:WHAM took a view .of .the question calculated to appal their Lordships, and -to 1 . 1 rest the deep and earnest attention of both the it and the country. He warned them that the taxt@s tic,„ was already decided—that happen what Wight the ,Negroes would not remain in bondage en hour ...after the first of August next. Lora M E I, BouR,NE attempted a leply which will be read with feelings of pain and regret by the people of England. It was anything but such a speech as the Noble Viscount ought to have made on such an occasion ; and knowing the strong religious feeling that prevails out of doors upon this question, we cannot be persuaded but that it will have an injurious effect upon the stability of the Cabinet. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND last night brought forward his motion for the termination of Negro Apprenticeship on the Ist of August, 1838. The speech in which the Hon. Gentleman set forth the grounds of the motion, which he called upon the House of Commons to adopt, was distin guished by great force of argument, and cannot fail to be read with interest by the friends of justice and humanity. The motion was ably and appropriately seconded by Mr. PEASE, a member of that sect who, greatly to their honour, have been the most zealous labourers in the great cause of negro freedom. The only other Member who addressed the House •n the questinn was Sir GEORGE GREY, the Under Secretary for the Colonies, who, it is but fair to say, did all that could be done to support the views which the Government have unfortunately adopted on this all-absorbing subject. Lame, however, and impotent is the best defence that can be made for the apprenticeship system ; and it is therefore no discredit to Sir G. GREY'S talents that he utterly failed to make out even a tolerable case for the West India Planters. The chief ground on which the:Right Hon. Baronet opposed the motion was the contract which was entered into with the Planters under the Abolition Act. This is not a new argument, and Sir GEORGE GREY did not present it in any new light. " 'What he contended for sets that there had been a compact with the Planters by the Act of 183. A solemn engagement had been entered into after serious deliberation by the British Parliament, and they had no rightnow, on comparatively light grounds, to constitute themselves judges whether on not that engagement should be observed." Now, allowing that there was a contract, which some persons (among others the Lord Chief Justice of England) deny, we ask Sir GEORGE GREY if a contract is binding only on one of the parties ? Our part of the contract was to pay Twenty Millions of money ; theirs to strike off the fetters of the negroes instantly, and to treat them humanely, according •to prescribed regulations, for six years of apprenticeship, during which apprentice ship their condition—to use the words, of the Co lonial Secretary, who introduced the Bill, and who ought to have known the terms of the contract—" was to be precisely that of workmen in England." We have paid the money—our part of the bargain as we have good rea son to feel has been completed—but will Sir GEORGE GREY say that the Planters hare fulfilled their's ? T words which we have quoted from the Hon. Baroner's speech show that he does say this—that he thinks there has been no breach of contract on the part of the Planters, and that we have no right to shorten the term of apprenticeship stipulated by the abolition Act. Now what is it that renders necessary the measure which the Government have brought forward ? If the Planters have so faithfully fulfilled their part of the con tract, how comes it that they require to be coerced in their conduct towards the apprentices by a new Act of the British Parliament, more stringent, we will venture to say, than any affecting the rights of the Colonial Assemblies that ever was passed by the Legisla ture—an Act which in reality gives a power approaching very closely to absolute despotism to the Colonial Governors ? Does not this very Bill prove that in the opinion of the Government the Planters have broken their engagements with the mother country ; and to cut the mat ter short, can any thing but the very grossest, breach of fsith justify the Government in so great and undeniable a violation of the rights of the Colonists ? We think the Government are therefore between the horns of this dilemma—they must either admit that the planters have broken the contract, compact, understanding, or what t ver else it may be called, or they must withdraw the Bill of pains and penalties which they have prepared against them. There are one or two other points—though of inferior importance—in Sir GEORGE GREY'S speech, which we in tended to notice, but we must, for want of space, reserve our observations until the close of the discussion, which our readers will perceive was adjourned. The Times has at length turned puritanical, and will ,00ri become the leading Journal of the AGNEWS and the P,LUMPTRES, As long as it was uncorrupted by the Saints there were hopes that its hatred of all cant would re vive, and restore it at some period or other to the cause of ,iberality and reason. Its hatred of Sabbath Bills served -.o separate it from the party, the interests of which it gene rally espouses, and which labours to suppress the liberty and the happiness of the people. To-day, it has snapped the last healthy principle which adhered to it, and it urges on the Saints to oppose, what it calls the " Notting Hill Nui sance Bill," which is to supply races and other healthful amusements to the inhabitants of London. It rails about " open gambling," " speedy intoxication," " indifference to the morals of the lower classes," &c. &c., with all the unction of a new convert to Agnewistn. " Suburban fairs were suppressed," we are told, " out of regard to the morals and comforts of the town, though the suburb in which each was held was visited with it but once a year, whereas the tenfold greater nuisance of the Hippodrome races will occur every week." If our memory be not at fault, our Contemporary, like several other journals, justly censured the eternal meddling with the amusements of the people, of which the suppression of fairs, for the gratification of the peevish gentry who are a great deal too respectable to dare to be happy, was a part. In truth, the interference of the rich, and the haters of vulgar joy, with the amusements of the bulk of the people, has done more to excite dissension and hatred betwixt them, than any real oppression which the respectable classes have been guilty of. Compared to the existence of this sour animosity, the licentious ness of all the fairs that ever were held is a trifling social evil ; though we will not even grant that the suppression of fairs has done anything better for the mora lity of the people than substitute secret and odious indul gences, for rude, boisterous, and hearty merriment. For our part we are friendly to offering the people all kinds of amusements, and are glad to see Hippodromes added to theatres and mechanics' institutions. We are not, at the same time, of opinion that the Government should provide amusements for the people, after the fashion of the Roman and Eastern Emperors, but it ought not to allow of their being suppressed ; and it ought to provide, as Mr. Fox MULE proposes, the means of preserving at them, as far as possible, order and decorum. To collect, as the Times objects to the Bill, all the thieves and blackguards of the metropolis, on one spot, will at least enable the police to watch them with greater ease. In most of the cities of the Continent, the Jews had a particular quarter, and in some of them a particular de scription of women was expressly located in some streets or districts ; and these two classes were not allowed to dwell out of their assigned places, for the very purpose of subjecting them to more efficient controul. Now, if, as the the Times supposes, the race-course at Notting-hill will become a place of habitual resort for all the thieves and gamblers of the metropolis, that might be a public advan tage. The police would know where to find them, and honest men and women where to avoid them. We do not at all share in the terrors of our Contemporary for the morality of the people, and hope that they may be allowed to have races, and games of all kinds, without any injury to property, or any violation of decency. Because our Contemporary in his moody fits of disappointment at the numerous failures of the Tories has forsworn all earthy joys, are there to be no more " cakes and ale" consumed in the once merry land of England? We have not space to-day to give the list of the . Ayes and the No es o n th e mo ti on w hi c h was carr i e d l as t night, to read the Grand Junction Railway Bill a second time. In those list s w ill b e f oun d men o f all po li t i ca l parties, jumbled together as their private interest, or the interest of their constituents dictates, showing that the public good is very seldom considered in private legislation, whatever it may be in legislation which is not called private. The importance of the question may be inferred, from the num ber of Members present—no less than 332. The large towns of Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham, with all the parts of the country lying in that direction more remote from the metropolis than Manchester, are in terested in this Railway, the object of which is to shorten the distance between them, and between the metropolis and them. But it will take something from Warrington perhaps, and introduce competition with a line of railway already laid down, and therefore it was stoutly opposed. We shall probably return to this subject, for railways are of great public interest, and private Bill legis lation requires to be closely watched. Almost every such Bill confers a monopoly to some extent, takes away from the public some rights which it must afterwards pay heavily to have restored, and creates vested interests which are afterwards found completely to stop further improvements. The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday have been received. They contain copies of the two treaties between France and the Haytian Republic, dated the 12th ult. By the first, France recognizes the independence of Hayti, and enters into relations of perpetual amity with that Re public ; while, by the second, Hayti engages to pay France 1;0,000,000 francs between the years 1838 and 1857, in zed annual instalments, by wa; of indemnity to the old planters, whose claims have hitherto been sadly overlooked Ly the French Government. Ti,e first instalment of this debt is ,reported to be already on its way to France. In their commerciA relations the French and Ha trans are to be placed respectively on the Lime footi n g as the most Invoured nations. The payment of the third instalment of the Greek Loan continues to occupy the columns of several of the leading Journals of Paris. In most of them comments of consi derable length accompany the following paragraph from the Minerva, an Athenian Journal, of the 2cl instant : " The Ambassadors have received a communication from the Conference of London, with orders to transmit it to Gover ment. In this note the Three Great Powers declare that they will make payment of the third series of the loan, under the following conditions :-1. The Greek Government shall give in security for the loan, a stated number of national domains, and shall give up the revenues of them for payment of the annual interest. 2. Every six months the Treasurer-General shall render exact account of the revenue of the national pro perty hypothecated. 3. In every case they shall be entitled to examine the general accounts of the revenues of the country. 4. From this third series of the loan there shall be deducted the interest and sinking fund of the present year. 5. The Greek Government shall be invited to re-establish an equili brium between its receipts and expenditure. 6. The Bavarian Government shall be invited not to demand till 1840 the re imbursement of the four millions of francs which it alleges is due to itself." From the north of Spain we have no news of a later date than the accounts published yesterday, except that the Carlist chief EGUIA has been released, and again re-instated in the good graces of the Pretender. Generals Etto and ZARIATEGUI have likewise been set at liberty, and are to resume the command of a new marauding expedition. The new campaign is expected to be an exceedingly brisk one, though we must confess that we have our doubts upon the subject. As far as it has advanced, the Carlists have uni formly had the worst of it. TOCLON, MARCH 21.—The United States American frigate which arrived to-day from Lisbon, has run aground in the road, to the west of this great town. As soon as the Sema phore gave the signal of this event, men and boats were sent to its aid. Orders were also given to a steam-boat to assist in getting the frigate afloat. This is the very same frigate which was at Cadiz when Admiral Lalandes' squadron arrived there, and refused the ordinary salute, though the English frigates, and the ships of war of other nations, saluted the Admiral, and the officers offered him their services. Our readiness to-day seems to show that we have forgotten the uncivil treatment of our flag, on the occasion we speak 0f... Journal des Debats. FRENCH FUNDS.—Paius, Msacti 28. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 108 f. 10c. Three per Cents. SOL 30c. Bank Actions, 2 , 650 f. Romans, 101%. Belgian Loan, 104. Belgian Bank, 1,450 f. Haytlan Loan, 5051. Spanish Actives, 22!4. Spanish Passives, 44. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1838. SHAFTESBURY. The evidence to prove the charge of treating against Capt. Mathews, which has been protracted to such a length, was this morning brought to a conclusion. Mr. COLBURN applied to the Committee to have the account books of Mr. Edwards, the landlord of the inn at which Captain Mathews stayed during the election, put in evidence, Mr. Edwards having evaded the Speaker's summons; and it being alleged that those books would have shown treAing on the part of the Gallant Captain, at this inn alone, to the amount of nearly 300/. The Committee after deliberating with closed doors decided that the books could not be received. Mr. COLBURN then proceeded in a speech of great ability and consi derable length to sum up the evidence. (The conclusion will be given in our Second Edition.) LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 9.9 . —wind N.E., a light breeze.--Came down from the River, and sailed the Great Britain Swinburn, for Montreal; Fox. hound, Betts, for Malta ; sir William Bensley, Gubb, for Quebec ; Ed win, Vere, for Constantinople ; and Lewis (steamer), Roberts, for Cork and New York. Arrived and proceeded for the River the William Fos ter, Young, from Nassau ; and Dido, Berdosli,. from Jersey. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind S.S.E., very light airs and fine. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Arrived off port the Rose, Richards, from St- Michael's, in twelve days ; sailed the Amelia Thompson, Tomlinson, for Sydney, New South Wales ; and her Majesty's ship Lightning, tor the Westward. FALMOUTH, MARCO :28.—Wind E., moderate breezes.—Arrived the Vibelia, Pentreath, from Messina, for St. Petersbugh, sailed Feb. 18. Arrived otf port ft)? Protector, from the Mauritius, for London, sailed Dec. IS, Cape of Good Hope, Jan. 20. Sailed Zwantina, Schuring, for, Kautz; St. Nicholas, Sedonius, for St. Petersburg. Vessels spoken with.—On March 2.2, in lat. 41. 35 North, lon. 11. Sloop Falmouth Packet, from Lisbon, by the Vibelia; Rover of Exeter, March 9.6, in lat 49, North, lon. 8. 15. West; and George IV. of Guernsey, March 18, in lat. 43. 31 North, lon. 25. 30. West. by the Protector. The brig, James Hunt, M`Donald master, which arrived on the 20th inst. from St. Domingo, dismantled, &c., has commenced discharging her c.:170. LIVERPOOL, MAtICH 29 —Wind N.N.W., light very thick weather. — Arrived the Birmingham (steamer), from Dublin. WATERFORD, Maacu 27.—Arrived Kilkenny (steamer), London. Hum., Mattel' 29.—Arrived the Severn (steamer), from Hambro'. CARDIFF, Maacts 29.—The Rosa, of Ilfracombe, is stranded on Braksen Point. A smack has been off Barry in a crippled state, and, since, a register has been picked up in a tin case, with Rapid 49 tuns, T. Huxtable. A good deal of wreck has also come on shore. The Harmony, Dunn, bound to Alexandria, has put back to Shields Much strained and leaky, having been on shore. The Janus, Longridge, from Sunderland to Charente, was run foul of and sunk off Beachy Head, 19th inst., crew saved. The Waterloo Packet Seaman, from Bristol to Cardiff and Hambro•, grounded in the Avon 25th inst., and capsized. The Charles, Jones, nom Cardiff to Bristol, sunk in the Avon 9.Bth inst. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY}, TIVELYE O'CLOCK. We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 18th January, from which we extract the following : " Road across the Cape Flats and Downs.—To the proposal made to Government by the Agricultural Society, and the shareholders in the projected high-road across the Cape Flats, the following is an extract of the answer received : " Colonial Office, Cape Town, Dec. 23.—Gentlemen, I am directed to acquaint you, that his Excellency the Governor has had under con. sideration the proposal submitted to him by you, forming a deputation from the Cape Agricultural Society, as well as in behalf of the share.. holders in the projected high-road across the Cape Flats and Downs, His Excelleney conceives that he would not be justified in appropriating any portion of the Crown lands as a security for the completion of a very expensive work proposed to be undertaken by a private Company—still less as a guarantee to any extent of the shareholders' expected return for the money subscribed for their shares; but least of all, can he entertain the project of undertaking the proposed work as a Government measure, to be executed by means of a Government Loan, bearing high interest. His Excellency will have much pleasure in submitting to her Majetty's Go. vernment any proposal, accompanied by the necessary detailed :nforma tion, which the Shareholders may be pleased to put into his hands for that purpose." From the above it appears that could six per cent. per annum on the sum required for forming the road in question be secured, no difficulty would be experienced in raising the money, even if the sum should amount to fifty thousand pounds. In the Report made by the Chairman and Directors at the first ge neral meeting of the Cape of Good Hope Bank, th e following is stated:— " The success of the B an k h as excee d e d their expeciations during the short period that has elapsed since its formation on the Ist of August last, and the Company may now be considered so firmly established, as to afford a safe and beneficial investment to its Shareholders, and the most perfect security to the public at large. The balance sheet, which was produced, and made up to the 31st of Decem. ber, shows for the five months a profit of 2, 2281. Ss. 6d., wh ich wil l ad mit of the sum of 1 , 550/ ., b e i ng carr i e d to the account of the surplus fund, or reserving the balance to be distributed to the Proprietors, if re quired, as a dividend equ i va l en t t o i n t eres t a t the rate of six per cent. The Directors report that 1,300 shares have been taken, forming a paid_ up capital of 43,333/ 18s. ; of these Shares 230 were disposed of at the premium of 51, per share. THE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday at 944 for the Account, opened at the same price, and may be: quoted at 934 t, Money 93A to 93; ; Ex chequer Bills, 63 65; India Bonds, 64 66. This is settling day in the Foreign Market, consequently the brokers and jobbers are chiefly occupied in settling their accounts. Dutch Stock has experienced the most fluctuations, the extreme has been about 3 per cent. In Brazil Stock during the account there has also bean about the same. 'We do not hear of any defaulters, nor is It supposed there will be any, as the chief business is done with the first-rate spe culators. Spanish Active rather lower, 211 t, with Coupons; Portu guese, 30,1; 31 ; Three per Cents., 20i 91; Brazilian, 70i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 544 ; Mexican, 27i 28 ; Columbian. 28i 29. 33pepreCrecnetn. Cent ....... .9f4 . 1 1 4 PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. — Ditto Bonds — `Old South.N n 'S rf a n i t B i e t . k . ....... ...... Di t• Jitio Red. - New Ditto - New 3% per Cent IOOX 1% 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751._ - New 5 per Cent........- ........... - Exch. Bills. IEI,OOO 63 65 om. Bank LongAnnultiestoexpi re Ditto ..............500 ll3 65 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 - I Ditte Small 1- , Oct. 10, 18511 Jan. 5, 1880 - Ditto Comniercial --- Ditto Adveeised 59 pm - Bank stock for Account - - pm. 5, 1860 I 2JO April 5, 1880.... ...... .. .. - I India Stock for A ccoun t ...... ... -- -Jan. 5, 1878. - l Consols for Acconnt 93% % PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL )CK• Austrian Bonds - Belgian Bonds - Ditto Acconnt ........... - Ditto Acc0unt......... ...... - Portugueseßinads........- ........ 6 8 Brazilian Bonds .... .............. 7 1 3 1 % Ditto Account - - D;tto New Bonds. 3l 30% - Ditto Acncunt - - Ditto, 3 per cent. '2o% • Prussian Bonds - • Russian Bords, im ...... • Ditto Account - Ditto Metallic ........ • - Spanish Boncit - Ditto Account - Ditto 80nd5.1414. 21%% Ditto Account 2134%% French, 5 per cent..." .... -f. -' ------ 4 per cent. --- 3 rer cent. .-f -'. ----- Exchange -f. -c. Dutch, 3% per cent 54% M Ditto Account 5433(1 D itto Ditto,cent.-- - A.ccount .- DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK ?aid. Per Share. British Iron Company ...-....----- ..... -.----.. 50 16 1514 16 :.'astern Counties Railway 5 5% Edinburgh and Glasgow .....-.. ••••• ...• ~.,... 3 5 c.reat Western Railway Company ....... 65 01 'I Bright an 'railway Company .--......---- -.... 8 105,4 Hs 11 ..olidon and Blackwail Raiiiray ......,„_ ....... 5 7% London and Birniinghain Railway Company ..„„, 90 - Ditto 11 Shares ------- ..... ..... -.... 5 32% 5l ncliester and Birmingham Railway ........ ...... 7 10% 10 5% 12 11 Asphalts, Noilern a C nd lluid lia g t e t " er s P n at ß e a n i t lw . a l.... C fn a 2 3 . ' .... .. ........ , 2 8 HALF-PAST 0 NE O'CLOCK. The business transacting during the morn .ing in the British and Foreign market has not been to any extent, with the exception of settling the Foreign account, which is of a h.,:ivier description than Cor some time past, but to the present time it is g oing off well. Consols, which was time in the earlier part of 04 day at 93} g for the Account, have since declined to 94 i, Mon sY, 93A ; Exchequer Bills, 63 65 ; India Bonds, 54 66, Ditto Account:: Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto ACcount ~ MTlliau Bonds .. Ditto Account .., Columbian Ditto Account C)lumbian Bonds, .1(-1 28% Ditto Account Oinish Bonds ............ Ditto Account Greek Bon4s Ditto Bends, 18 . 25 .. Bitto Account .......... Mexican Bonita, 5 per cent.... Ditto Account - Ditto, 6 per cent. ..... 2 7 14% Ditto Acc0unt........ 2.7N Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THL Spanish Active, 21i with Coupons; Portugu 4 50 . 4 ; Three per Cents. 214; Mexican, 27i I; Columbian, 24 ' ; Brazilian, MI; Dutch, 541 In the Share Market, very little doing, Brighton h etter, 3 prem. ; Bri ish Iron, 16 ; Claridge's Asphalte, 11. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 93 1. DEFENCE OF SLAVERY. TO SIR GEORGE GREY. Spa GRORGE—T listened with deep interest to your very able and effective speech, delivered in the House of Commons last night; and as one of a body of men whom you thought right to assail several times, where they could not defend themselves, I beg to submit to you the following remarks, which apply only to the great principle in dispute. You, Sir George, in an official capacity, have given utterance to sentiments which we did not expect from you as a man and as an Englishman. A contract (you say) was entered into between the British Parliament and the West Indian proprietors. Are the negroes bound by that contract ? Are the fortunes and persons of men to be disposed of by a bargain, in the making of which they had no voice whatever ? There exists, Sir George, in India, a large body of men called Thugs. They enter into a more solemn compact than that which, you say, involves the faith of Parliament; and the object of it is to commit as many murders as possible. And why is not that compact binding? Clearly because it is immoral. But, Sir George, very near to the command " Thou shalt not kill," is another, " Thou shalt not steal." And what is the object of that infamous contract you have eulogised? To commit rob bery —to deprive nearly 800,000 human beings of freedom till 1840 ; and all of them who can work of the wages of their labour. " The hire of the labourer, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth." In the name of Almighty God, I ask, who gives you and the planters a right to seize and ap propriate to the masters' use the hard-earned fruits of the black man's toil, till the year 1840 ? In concluding, let me assure you that, in the minds of a large number of gentlemen who were your auditors last night, and whose opinions you do not and cannot despise, the name of Sir George Grey will henceforward be associated with what they must deem a most needless and callous defence of fraul and slavery.—l am, Sir George, One who hoped better things from a Liberal Government, W. ROBINSON. EARL OF DURHAM. (Paper laid before the House of Commons.) CORRESPONDENCE relating to the ESTABLISHMENT of the Earl of DURHAM, as GOVERNOR-GENERAL Of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, and HER MAJESTY'S HIGII COMMISSIONER. Downing-street, March 24, 1838. My Lord,—l have the honour to inform you, that a desire has been expressed by a Member of the House of Commons in his place, that a statement of your Lordship's Establishment as Governor-General of the British North American Pro yinces, and her Majesty's High Commissioner for the Adjust ment of certain Affairs in Canada, should be laid before the House. Lord John Russell, on the part of her Majesty's Government, having assented to this request, I shall be obliged if your Lordship will furnish me with a statement of your Establishment, for this purpose.—l have, &c. - - (Signed) GLENELG. The Right Hon. the Earl of Durham, G.C.8., &c. &c. Cleveland-row, March 26, 1838. My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's communication of the 24th instant. Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to entrust to me the general Government of Six Provinces in North America, the entire administration of the affairs of one Province during the suspension of the ordinary form of government, and a separate Commission for the adjustment of weighty affairs affecting the permanent welfare of all her Majesty's possessions in North America, I must require, for the due performance of these im portant and multifarious functions, the most zealous and effi cient co-operation. I feel it due to those who leave this country on this arduous and difficult service, to ensure to them adequate and honour able remuneration. By this feeling I have been influenced in the formation of an Establishment for carrying on the Government of North America, and have the honour of enclosing you a copy of my letter to Sir George Grey, of the 10th instant, in which are included the details which your Lordship requests. I have also to state to your Lordship, that I have received from the Commander of the Forces permission to avail myself of the services of four paid Aides-de-Camp, whose assistance will be urgently required in the various personal communica tions which I must necessarily make to the Lieutenant-Gover nJrs and Commanders of her Majesty's Forces in the different Provinces placed under my government. I have now given your Lordship all the information I can afford you at the present time. On my arrival in North Ame rica, I may possibly find it necessary to require further Exe cutive assistance ; but I can assure your Lordship that I shall ever be guided by as strict an attention to economy as is con sistent with what is, I own to you, my primary object, the efficiency of the public service.—l have, &c. (Signed) DURHAM. The Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, &c. &e. P. S.—The only appointments that I have made as yet, arc those of Mr. Edward Ellice, as Private Secretary, and Colonel Couper, as Military Secretary. The latter gentleman sailed for New York last week, with despatches for Sir J. Colborne. It is not my intention to make any other appointments until after my arrival in North America. Cleveland-row, March 10, 1838. Sir,—ln accordance with your request, I enclose you a Memorandum of my proposed Establishment, as far as I am at present enabled to judge of the assistance which I shall re quire for the due execution of the duties assigned to me, as Governor-General of British North America, and her Majes tv's High Commissioner.—l am, &c. . (Signed) DURHAM. Sir George Grey, Bart., &c. &c. MEMORANDUM Of the SALARIES required for the ESTABLISH MENT of the Earl of DURHAM, as GOVERNOR-GrNattAL oI BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, and HER MAJESTI'd HIGH COM MISSIONER, &C. &C. Governor-General Chief Secretary £1,500 0 0 Military ditto Two Assistant Secretaries (Clerks) Legal Adviser Private Secretary to the Governor-General. '(Signed) DURHAM. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. With moderate supplies of both Grain and Flour this week, there had not been a free trade for any articles in the Corn trade. As the warm weather approaches, the millers appear unwilling to increase their stocks, and the Wheat trade is dull, and hardly supports Monday's terms. For good Oats the buyers are obliged to give full prices, and i■ all other sorts of Corn there is no variation since Monday. The sale of Flour is slow at its former value. ARRIVALS. Barley. Oats. Flour 7,730 qrs. 4,360 qrs. 4,860 sacks 8,370 Wheat. English Irish Foreign SMITHFIELD. Prices to-day varied very little from tho seof Monday. Trade was dull, and the supply to a moderate extent. Beasts 578, Sheep 4,042, Calves 130, Pigs 386. Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d ; Mutton 4s. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal 4s. 4d. to 55. 4d; Pork 4s. to ss. BILLINGSGA TE MARKET. Supply of Fish to-day to a fair extent—prices much as yesterday. Cod, 2s. to 12s. ; Soles, 6d. to 3s, per pair ; Lobsters dear ; Turbot, ss. to 18s. and 19s. Other kinds in proportion. PROVISION MARKET. This department continues dull, but in prices we quote no variation of any kind from those of last week ; prices, however, must come down before a brisk business can be secured. HOP AND SEED MARKET. Hops continuo steady in price and demand. A good Inquiry con tinues for Red Clover Seed, and price are quite as dear as those of last Monday. Other kinds unvaried. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. is very eat, and lower, 565. being the price. METAL MARKET. The only variation in this department is in English Tin, which is 2s. higher. COLONIAL MARKETS. For consumption the disposition to purchase is good—not so much for consumption. The Market for Coffee is particularly flat—indeed, it cannot be correctly said that there is any Market. To-day we have sun. dry small sales of Coffee, East India admissible at the 9d. duty, but they form no: criterion for the Market. We have no B.P. or Mocha in the Market to-day. B. P. Sugar sells steadily, and when we left the Market prices were one shilling full higher than this day week. The amount sold during the week has been very considerable. Owing to the previous high prices of Mollasses, they do not advance along with Sugar. Of Mauritius Sugar, the sales were 10,252 bags ; the previous firmness of the Market was sustained, and where prices varied we should think that they were rather higher. 2,215 boxes of llavannah supported much about the previous state of the Market, which was dull. The Market for Rice is flat. Rum firm but not higher. Spices for the most part are firm. Pepper and Pimento are inclined to be lower. The Imports continue light. For to-morrow we have no public sales. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARC!! 29. There has been an exceedingly meagre demand for Cotton this day, and very few sales were effected, still we hare no reduction in prices to report since yesterday. About 3,000 bags were sold. 150 Bahia, 7&d.; 2,720 American, Sid. to Bd. for Orleans ; 130 Egyptian, 9d. to 10d. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. Per Quarter. Blandford Brigg- Carnbridge--- Chard Huntingdon Long 5utt0n,.,.....,. Louth -- Newark s. to s. 50 62 54 58 g. a. 27 .10 23 24 I. to I. 22 25 18 26 25 18 22 24 29 16 20 18 26 16 20 19 28 19 28 22 29 20 23 8. to 8. 8. to S. 53 62 46 60 28 38 48 56 52 63 51 59 44 59 49 62 40 65 • 70 43 %64 13 62 24 ii 34 38 $4 44 21 25 22 al 24 31 2S 31 35 42 30 34 - 43 36 38 24 30 Nottingham -- Peterborough - Plymouth Pontefract,.,..Sleaford Upping!lain Wisbech 22 28 18 28 96 40 38 48 30 34 30 37 30 32 31 43 35 42 38 43 41 43 32 44 30 32 30 32 - 34 40 32 34 - 32 EXPENSE OF LORD GOSFORD'S appears from a Parliamentary paper, that 12,6781. was the to tal expenditure of the office and establishment of Lord Gos ford as Governor-General and Commissioner in Canada, be tween the 18th of February, 1836, and the 18th of February, 1837. The salary of the Noble Earl was 8,710/ , the remain der was the cost of secretaries, assistants, messengers, &c. Lord John Russell l ast n i g h t expresse d h i s intention to name the Committee on Church Leases, and to fix the day for its appointment when he moves the adjournment of the House for the Easter recess. MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON.- We are requested to state that the " Memoirs of Sir William Knighton" will be published by Mr. Bentley, New Burling ton-street, (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty) on the 6th of April. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETIN G. (THIS DAY.) A Meeting of the Deleg , t,' , ; from the various Anti-slavery Societies was this morning held at Brown's Coffee-house, New Palace-yard, for the purpose of taking into consideration the course which the friends of the negroes ought to take, in consequence of the declarations made last night in the House of Commons by Sir George Grey on the part of the Govern ment. There was a very full attendance, between two and three hundred delegates being present. Mr. Blair was called to the chair. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON thought it was now necessary that the assembled delegates should make it known to the Govern ment that Sir George Grey was mistaken when he supposed that his Bill would allay the agitation of the country upon the great question of Negro Emancipation. It was not for him to say why the Government was opposed to the people on this subject—whether it was the fault of their intellect or of their hearts. The country might as well have a Cabinet of West Indians, with Gladstone and Borthwick at the head, as the present Colonial Administration, with Glenelg and Grey.— ( Cheers and laughter.) He cared not what professions of humanity and religion individual members of the Govern ment might make at Stroud and Devenport, or Exeter Hall ; they had to deal with them in their collective capacity, and they should tell them, before the division of to-night, that they would oppose them.—( Cries of "We will, we will.") He denied that there was, or there ever had been, any contract. The Imperial Parliament had fixed the price of the slaves' emancipation at twenty millions. They never consulted the planters. When the apprenticeship was agreed to, it was said that the object was not to benefit the planter, but the negro himself. The negro now asked to be relieved from that benefit, and the planter acknowledged that it was a benefit conferred in fraud—conferred upon him, the planter, not upon the negro.—( Hear, hear.) The pale-skin, slave driving oligarchy now claimed it as a right to publish their own shame. The avowed object of the Umancipation Bill was to benefit the condition of the negro ; but it had failed to accomplish that object by its own imperfection, and the sub tlety and malignity of the planters. He believed in his con science that there really existed no contract • if there did it was unholy, and ought to be b ro k en , when they asked for the freedom of their brethren.—( Hear, hear.) That women should be spared from the lash—that the sceptre of Victoria the First should be swayed in justice and mercy.— ( Hear, hear.) Such were the demands of a weeping race— a petitioning nation and an insulted God.—(Cheers.) He concluded by moving the following resolution:— " That as her Majesty's Ministers have, in the progress of the debate on the negro apprenticeship, urged the strong ne cessity of putting an end to the excitement without doors, under the idea that passing Lord Glenelg's Bill will settle the question and preclude the possibility of all further agitation, the delegates, assembled from all parts of the kingdom, do feel it their duty thus solemnly to declare, that the passing of Lord Glenelg's Bill will rather increase than diminish the na tional excitement in behalf of the oppressed negroes, an ex citement which, as it is founded on the highest religious prin ciple, can never be terminated but by that issue which reli gion, justice, and mercy imperatively demand." Mr. ALEXANDER, in supporting the resolution, reprobated in strong terms the insincere conduct of Sir G. Grey, which he declared to be that of a .hired advocate.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. A. gave way to Mr. BERKLEY, who seconded the resolution. The Rev. Mr. ROBINSON, in supporting the resolution, compared the contract which subsisted between the Govern ment and the planters to that which bound together the Thugs in India. Mr. ALEXANDER moved a resolution to the effect that her Majesty's Ministers had forfeited the confidence of the country. Mr. BURT seconded the resolution. He agreed with Mr. Alexander, in characterising the conduct of Sir George Grey, as that of a hired advocate; and he declared, that when he last night saw him hold out his hand, he thought he saw the bribe in his palm.—( Cheers and laughter.) A responsibility had been attempted to be thrown on those to whom no respon sibility belonged.—( Hear, hear.) What had they to do with the West India planters or the Local Legislature ?—( Hear.) They looked only to those to whom the administration of Go vernment was entrusted, and who would say that the sentence of an insulted and indignant nation ought not to be passed upon them.—( Cheers, and cries of " Order.") It was im possible that an Act of Parliament could be viewed in the light of a contract. He had never heard an Act of Parliament 5 , 3 termed before, and he thought the phrase had been artfully used by the supporters of slavery, under the impression that it would act as a sort of talisman or spell on a commercial com munity.__( Hear, hear.) The trick, however, would be in effective, and he hoped this meeting would not separate without some expressions of their displeasure at the conduct of her Ma jesty's Ministers.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. BOULTREE said, that notwithstanding the declaration of the Government against them, and the attempt to de feat them by tricks and chicanery, they would succeed by unity, determination and perseverance.—(Cheers.) Mr. B. was proceeding to refer to the part which he had taken in the discussion yesterday, when he was called to order by the Chairman, and he sat down after expressing his concurruence in the resolutions before the Chair. Mr. TI OMPSON begged to say one word in reference to what had fallen from a delegate near him. He did not know whether or not an Act of Parliament was to be considered in the light of a contract. Mr. S'C'ALIS said that if a motion of this sort had been pro posed yesterday he should have been disposed to resist it ; but having heard Sir G. Grey's speech last night in the House of Commons, he could not refuse his assent to it. No one who had heard what had fallen from that Hon. Baronet but must have regarded it with indignation and abhorrence.—( Cheers. ) Mr. BALDWIN said that he thought he was entitled to say a few words on this subject—( Hear, hear)—for if they had fol lowed the course which he had advised on the preceding evening, and on which he, Dr. Greville, and the Irish Delegates, stood almost alone—had they directed their just sentence against the Administration that had so deter. minedly, and so insultingly, set itself against those who stood forward in vindication of the claims of outraged hu manity, Sir George Grey would not have dared to utter the language attributed to him in the report of the Commons' debate. He had warned Mr. Buxton in 1833, and he now repeated his warning, that nothing would do with officials but plain speaking and firm persevering action ; and as a delegate from the important city of Dublin, even if he stood alone, he would move a resolution, that the existing Administration by its tone of defiance against those who took the lead in the great question of Negro freedom, was unworthy of the confidence and support of the' constitu encies throughout the United Kingdom. Mr. BASS objected to the resolution, because ho thought they had no right to pledge the whole Christian community to it.—(Hear, hear.) There might be some who dissented from them in opinion, and he thought it too sweeping an asser tion to say that they represented the feelings of the entire people. Dr. MANUEL would venture to take upon himself to say, that they did represent the general feelings and opinions of tho community.--( Hear, hear, and cheers. ) Mr. FOSTER thought the resolution shculd be confined to a censure on Government with respect to this particular mea sure alone. The resolution, as now framed, expressed a want of confidence with respect to the general policy of Govern ment, and he thought that if it was carried in its present form, it would be stating their opinion that the Govern ment were unfit longer to hold office.—( Hear, hear.) Now this he thought was going too far, and it should also be recollected that it was from this Government alone they had ever obtained any mitigation of the horrors of slavery.-- ( Hear, hear.) He thought they had no right to express an opinion, with respect to any other than the question before them, and he should therefore move that these words be added to the resolution, " for the settlement of this measure." The Rev. W. GILES said, that the language of Sir G. Grey had been so insulting towards them, that they could not express their indignation against him and his colleagues in terms of too strong a nature.—( Hear, hear.) Ex uno disce omnes—they had a right to presume that he would not have used such language if his sentiments were not participated in by the other members of the Government, and he thought that very little delicacy ought to be observed towards them. The Hon. Bart. had presented slavery to them as if it was a gentle lamb which they were to nurse and fondle.—(" Hear, hear," and laughter. ) Now this reminded him of a caricature which he had seen the other day of the Queen sitting on an animal.--( Loud laughter, and cries of " Order.") A DELEGATE asked if there was any question before the Chair.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. GILES said that he should not proceed further than merely to say, as there was a difference of opinion as to whe ther or not the course they were now pursuing, was that which would be agreeable to the people at large, that it was his opinion it was the very line of proceeding which they would wish them to adopt.—( Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN asked if the amendment were seconded. Several gentlemen started forward for the purpose of seconding it. Mr. WILSON thought they were only frittering away the time of the meeting, in disputing with respect to this point. The resolution referred only to this particular question. Mr. CROPPER suggested the alteration of the resolution by the addition of the words, " If Ministers persevere in this line of conduct." Mr. BALL thought the resolution would be very much weakened by the omission of the word preferred. The con duct of the Government had bee* marked by falsehood, mean ness and audacity, to an extent that he had never beforQ wit nessed.--( Cheers.) _ _ --- Mr. M'Cal.t., thought the way in which they had been pre cipitated into this resolution was not very creditable to the as sembly, nor in accordance with their usual demeanour. If they came to such a resolution it should be with the utmost stillness and order.—( Hear, hear.) They ought not to commit themselves to a syllable that in twenty-four hours they might think too strong.—( Hear, hear, hear.) His power as a delegate was entirely confined to one object—the emanci pation of the negroes in 1838.--(Cheers.) In the Govern ment there were many men of the highest character, and of the most unquestionable humanity, and he thought their con fidence ought still to remain unabated with regard to their characters.—(" Hear, hear," " No, no," and great confusion. ) Mr. FOSTER thought that if the resolution were passed, the greatest division among the delegates would take place. Mr. G. THOMPSON suggested the propriety of inserting in the resolution the words" should her Majesty's Government perse vere in their present course of proceeding."—( Cheers, and " No, no.") They had done wrong in allowing for an instant their party political feelings to get the better of their judgments.— ( Hear, hear.) No gentleman should take it up as a political resolution.—( Hear.) They ought to speak as the Christian friends of the negro, having one object and one hope : and be believed the intention vias to say the present Administration, on the question of negro slavery, had log the confi deuce and the support Of the Christian 00WItry,— ( Cheers, and loud cries of " That will do.") Perhaps the better way would be for a few gentlemen to retire, and cep: if they could frame a resolution that would wee; all parties.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. KNIGHT said the very thing stated i•• • • was stated in the resolution itself, or the ground of it.—( Hear and laughter.) Mr. CHAPMAN, from Newcastle, said there were few gentle men present who represented a larger constituency than he did. He considered the resolution could not be too strong if it were only true.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear. ) They ought to legislate for those poor creatures the Negroes as they would for their own wives and children, and if they came within the terms of the address by Sir George Grey I" the House of Commons, he must say human nature had been insulted, and Christian principle trampled to on. —( Cheers. ) He must say that he thought her Majesty's G ov ernment, by their conduct on the question of Negro slavery, had forfeited the confidence of the country, and henceforth their support and countenance.—( Cheers. ) Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON then put the resolution to the De legates as follows :—" That it is the opinion of the assembled Delegates that the course pursued by H er M a j es ty' s Ministers on the question of Negro emancipation, is deserving of unqua lified condemnation."—( Cheers.) Are we unanimous on that? —( Cries of " Yes, yes.") Mr. BALDWIN believed they were not unanimous.—( Hea r ' hear, and laughter.) If alone, he would stand there and oppose the resolution, unless there were added to it, d , tbat Ministers were unworthy of the co n fid ence an d support of those who had advocated the great ca use o f h uma nity. ( Hear, hear.) The Rev. Mr. BURNETT said it would b e a ver y gr ave thing for that Assembly to pass a vote of unqua lifi e d censur e on the Government, and to say the Minister s w ere i ncom p e tent as a Government for the purposes of Legisl a ti on .—( H ear , hear.) He (Mr. B.) was willing to admit th a t th ey w h o w ere not capable of doing justice in this case, mi g ht not b e ca pable of doing justice on many others.—( H e a r , h ear .) B u t itfwas a serious thing for that meeting, consisti ng o f t h e representa tives of large bodies of the people, to take upon itself the responsibility of passing an unqualified censure on the moral and political character of the Administration. H e d ou bted very much if their constituents would not say they had gone beyond the limits of their mission.—( Hear, hear.) The resolution and the amendment went to pronounce sentence of condemna tion on the Ministers generally. He should rather be dis posed to propose that four gentlemen should retire as a sub committee to prepare a resolution that might meet the views of all, and not compromise the delegation.—( Hear.) After a great deal of desultory discussion a sub-committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Baldwin, Thompson' Burnet, Chapman, and M‘Caul ; who accordingly retired to another room. Dr. GREVILLE then proposed, that as Lord Glenelg ha d made out in the House of Lords the whole case of the delega tion, it would be desirable to bring that Noble Lord's adnns - under the notice of the Members of the House of Com mons this night.—( Hear.) He moved that a letter, addressed to Lord Melbourne, and embodying the statements of Lord Glenelg, should be printed, and copies distributed among st the Members.—( Hear. ) Mr. MORGAN, of Birmingham, seconded the motion, whi ch was unanimously agreed to. Mr. WRIGHT then moved a resolution of thanks to Sir G. Strickland, which, however, was withdrawn, on the under' standing that it should be brought forward after the conclusion of the debate of this night. A motion for an address to the Queen, brought forward b oe meeting the denyfo l t l h o e w i e n x g i s r t c e o c l e u t o i o f n any c 0 t I,D t h h i e s n m m e Mr. Johnson, was a l so p ostpone d . ‘ N ‘ I T r. h ß at iG w il h ° tract between this country and the West Indian proprietor s i to continue the appre n ti ces hi p , t h ey at the same time are °f opinion that all contracts:which compromise the natural right s of the human race, and contravene the divine law, are before God null and void, and ought to be abolished." Mr. MORGAN seconded the resolution, which was ultimately referred to a sub-committee. Mr. G. Thomson and the other Members of the Subcom mittee previously appointed then submitted the following re solution, which was unanimously agreed to :—" That it is the opinion of the assembled delegates that the course pursued by her Majesty's Ministers on the great question of negro ap prenticdhip merits unqualified condemnation, as being ine r9- sistent with just legislation, sound policy, the negroes' ri , gbts , and the admission of those existinr , evils in the colonier,a urn which Lord Glenelg's Bill is itself founded, and the e,eleg 3 t e „ 9 call upon their con s tit uents t h roug h out the country to give u all constitutional means the strongest public expression of their opinions and feelings regarding the cond'act of the Ad ministration on this occasion." Mr. BURNET, for the Sub-Committee, submitted an amend ment on Mr. Bign o ld' s motion, which , :vas merely the inset' tion of the followin g clause—" That had any co ntract existed, it bad been flagrantly violated by the planters themselves, both in law and practice." The resolution, as amended, was unanimously a greed to. A highly compliment ar y an d we l l deserved vo t e of thanks was then passed to Mr. Scales, of Leeds, and Mr. Wilson, : , 9 Nottingham, aft e r w hi c h t h e meet i ng was adjourne d till t o'clock to-morrow. The following is the letter addressed to Lord MelV j ourneo on the motion of Dr. Greville MY LORD,—In adopting the present mode of addressing Sou, WC b e g to offer our sincere thanks for the prompt, manner ir, Which yotl aC ceded to our request for a personal interview,for the courtesy with w hich you received us, and the frankness w . !ch which you explained the vie , " held by her Majesty's Ministers in l'egard to the Slavery question. per mit us, my Lord, at the sax:it time to say, with equal frankness and with due deference, ttiat when you spoke of the " ausPie i°° advancement" of the apprenticeship, we listened with feelings of unfeigned astonishment, My Lord, at the time you mad e this statement, Lord Gl ene l g, w h o has recently shown s° in timate an acquaintance with the condition of the West 1 7 .5 ., tc , colonies, was present ; and a lth oug h h e was silent during the inter'? we beg leave on the gr an d po i nt to appeal to the speech deliver,'-' him in the Upper H ouse o f P ar li ament. We might say m uch, ' 9 u re selves upon this subj ec t ; we m i g h t observe that such a d',,sclo'u " forced" upon Lo r d Gl ene l g, as he declared it tm be, and y.lOl a Bill forced upon the British Government, in the ele,venth hour, for the p o ' n, tection of the negro ag a i ns t th e savage tyratedy of oolc:dal legisit t „ is a rather extraordi nary ev id ence of the auspicious advance the apprenticeship syst em . B ut we refer at once to unquestio n ote authority—the authority of your Lordship's own colleague. We quo from Lord Glenelg's sp eec h as 1,-..ported in the Times and 26c ' ., Chronicle, of Wednesday, Feb : 21, 1838. prO" " I have made," s a id Load Glenelg, "e very e ff ort to cor rect the ote ceedings of local assembli es. The efforts of my N o bl e Friend neari nej (the Marquis of Sligo) h ave been made to correct the evils con l P l of. My Noble Friend has appealed to the House of Assembly ur i :as this and many othe r gr i evances. —(Hear, hear.) Sir Lionel on sent a messa ge t o t h e House of Assembly, recommending them th.ge b nd sideration of m an y suc h grievances. The message was sent on until of November ; it was referred to a Committee. The House 53 " ar y Christmas; and then it a dj ourned at an unusual time, Fehr.,ren and not a single topi c recommended to its notice had beer, taken into they Dad sideration. Now it w as necessary for him to say, that, though et b e nothing to hope for f rom th e local assemblies of V ac C o lonies, y trusted that they had everything to hope for from. Parliament." r ea• "Your Lordship s are aware that, by the Altolition Act, the app tices are divid e d i nto d i fferent classes--the prredial and the non-11 1 th e apprentices. The non.p rw di a l apprenticeship is to continue nut'see -Ist August, 1838, and the prandial,apprenticeship until 1840. In Dee" ral of the coloni es it appears that an incorrect arrangement h`-ro made, and the s l aves are thus injured. In Jamaica there had bee ouch classification la w w h atever passed until last year, and then it vlofovern" a nature that I cou ld not allow it to receive the sanction of the JO' merit of this country. Up, then, to this moment no classifica tl has passed. gr eat " In Jam a i ca th e e i ght hour system has given rise to gr% „we' content. It has acted very i n j ur i ously to the negro, f or w hile hour system secured to the negro a holiday every Friday, the re fes a system precluded hi m f rom that indulgence, and left him but thc of the day for raising his own provision. " It is true th at apprentices are condemned to \workhouses, or or 110° 0 , 1 of correction pla ce d un d er l ocal laws, for apK en ti ce o ffences,.ole fences affecting the int eres t o f hi s employers. For every inc.:o' d Sc; offence of this ki n d th e apprentice is committed to a wor/w„eru t he is removed f rom th e protection of British law, and from t ha t Wil l not enter into more sad scenes to which my Noble Friend ment the admissi on of special magistrates is carefully prevented. AO has anti': t he occurring in these wor khouses —scenes on which it is impossible for mind to dwell without horror." t t i e " Many facts h ave b een elicited regarding these workhouses 5* 0 1 course of the ex am i nat i on before a Select Committee of the 11 °, 11 0 in Commons, which p rove that the most horrid cruelties are perPet,rivot. them, and pr esen t a most disgusting picture of West Indian • sti' " The evil f ee li ngs generated by a long course of ssicke: lll , t° : ov , rankle in the br easts o f t h e oppressors, and they have recourse f t bsP , worse instruments th an t h ey ever b e f ore employed in, the heig ht ° most licentious barbarity." (V.!) o My Lord, we might ha ve ex t racte d more larr z ty from Lor d „c speech. But we have surely brought forward, sufficient to jus" JY t i r shi? denouncing in the name of th e B r i t i s h peo ple that the aPP ren o o c yer il i shall terminate on or bef ore t h e Ist of August next. " t ° tnent," according to Lord Gl enelg " acknowledges the rio for the negro to freedom." He admits that he is " willing to 5 - n a wages ;" that he has s h own " great patience, docility, u n d", bearance." We protest, th erefore, against the prolongs.tion pro,' es t any modification of a system which ha s b een ° Mei,'" op to be distinguished by f rau d , injustice, and harbaritY• for 6' rave ' The sufferings of the poor sl aves during the last four years"; oe og au they still argument i are n the breast, to the disofgraever just andce of the Britishhumane Crown ma n for th e re f• or -would of the remaining two years of miserable bondp„ge, We den irn .Au d ' ct them, in the name of Almighty God, as an aof bare j ust' tee'ts prov', y my Lord, permit us to say, hi conclusion. , that shou ld our cab' o and inetlbctual—should a cruel and tin) , _ ls t policy triurrAph,. 3 : 0 ;e4 riot we, may be found in the great dar ,of account to ',lave rfe tiovfr creatures, who are of equal vr;l ue fearful responsibility. The teara a p d in the sight cf God with the "". and Nobles of this fine land, wit's rise to bear witness, against • my Lord, let not God, w:ien he looks for judgment, behold opPr` for righteousness behe; i d a cry. so ts, ser i ' groans of thous%nds ofY ° .. ° ic once s We are, my Lord. , your Lordship's obedient and most humble signed on behalf of the Delegates, by , h 101° . BLAIR, Mr. Humphrey off umphrey p a i re d with Mr. A d rr e r ies n Thompson, against Lord Eliot's; motion ; and art Grey's name was omitt e d i n the list of the majority w peered i n yesterday ' s paper. to TIIE D UCHESS OF K ENT.— I t iS 821,, sate orY supplying • o f learn, from the Times, that the tradespeople • - Highness the Duchess of Kent, who have been in the goy her Royal Hi late estrablic:.brae nt d '_..,anc ls ' sington Palace, were paid a largo portion of their ( -"„ o lco on Wednesday the 28th instant. The London tradesP" it is added, had been previously paid. SECOND-HAND SILVER WA _` l Gu inea ° A variety o f some dozens may be selected front, price TN eac h ea ch each ; some rather more modern, Two and a Half Gt Thte and an assortment quite equal to new, Three Guineas sash' rr CO whole have bees, carefully examined, and are warrantee ' . Doors fropi SAVORY, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London, Seven t Graceeh urc h- s t reet . N . B . S econ d - h an d W atc h es; purchased exchange. sc, London ; Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' t oy 112, Stra n d, a t Th e S un Office, No. 112, r,itrand, in the c° of Middiesax.—Friday, March 30, 1838..